Standards to be covered

  • RL 3, 4, 5
  • RI 3, 4, 6, 7
  • SL 1; 4(a) – plan and deliver a reflective narrative: explore the significance of a personal experience, event or concern; use appropriate techniques: sensory details, dialog
  • SL 6 – adapt appropriate speech to a variety of contexts and tasks
  • L 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
  • L 3 - apply knowledge of language, understanding function of language in different contexts, exploring choices to develop style
  • WS 3 – write narratives, real or fiction
  • WS 4 – produce clear, coherent writing appropriate to the task, purpose and audience
  • WS 5 -
  • WS 6 – use technology, including internet, to produce, publish and revise compositions, including new arguments and information

Skills

  • Point of view
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Dialogue
  • Structure
  • ToneInternal thoughts/feelings
  • Exposition/sequence/chronological order
  • Inner monologue
  • Direct/indirect quotes
  • External/internal conflict
  • Literary Terms
  • Plot
  • Setting/mood
  • Imagery
  • Character

Concepts

Includes:
9th: personal
10th: creative/nonfiction
11th: creative/nonfiction/personal
12th: personal/creative
  • Personal statement: describe, use dialog, create voice; consider purpose and audience and appropriate techniques
  • Having students, write and think about their purpose and choice techniques (which will link to rhet. Analysis)

Reading Selections


Writing Task

Do we want to do multiple drafts or just on demand as this is a short unit???
12th personal/creative: can include personal essays for college
11th Creative/nonfiction/personal

10th: creative – non fiction
9th: personal

NOTE: Having students write and think about their purpose and choice techniques (will link to rhet. Analysis).


12th Grade
  • Multi-Draft
    • Multiple-Draft prompts need to include:
      • Write narratives or personal statements, nonfiction or fiction
      • Students address task, purpose, and audience to create tone and/or mood
      • Provide a Point of view
      • Structure of essay will be exposition/sequence/chronological order
      • In creating fictional narrative, ask students to include a metaphor and/or simile, and dialogue (inner thoughts and external), plot, setting, imagery, characters
      • Use an External and/or Internal conflict


    • Multi-Draft papers need to have the following:
      • Multiple reading and sources as a means to strengthen thesis.
      • Position/thesis
      • Essential claims, own opinions
      • Counterarguments
      • Inferences from text, evidence, and experiential observations
      • Student writer need to consider audience and purpose
      • Student writer needs to include: diction, voice, tone, writer style and organization
      • MLA Citations – more carefully
      • Create a Work Cited page

  • On-Demand
    • On-Demand prompts need to include:
      • Write narratives or personal statements, nonfiction or fiction
      • Students address task
      • Provide a Point of view
      • Structure of essay will be exposition/sequence/chronological order
      • In creating fictional narrative, ask students to include at least one or two of the following: metaphor and/or simile, and dialogue (inner thoughts and external), plot, setting, imagery, characters, external and/or internal conflict.


    • On-Demand papers need to have the following:

      • Write narratives or personal statements, nonfiction or fiction
      • Students will address task
      • Provide a Point of view
      • Structure of essay will be exposition/sequence/chronological order
      • In creating fictional narrative, ask students to include at least one or two of the following: metaphor and/or simile, and dialogue (inner thoughts and external), plot, setting, imagery, characters, external and/or internal conflict.
      • MLA, syntax, grammar, spelling


9th & 10th

  • Multi-Draft
    • Multiple-Draft prompts need to include:
      • Write narratives or personal statements, nonfiction or fiction
      • Students address task, purpose, and audience to create tone and/or mood
      • Provide a Point of view
      • Structure of essay will be exposition/sequence/chronological order
      • In creating fictional narrative, ask students to include a metaphor and/or simile, and dialogue (inner thoughts and external), plot, setting, imagery, characters
      • Use an External and/or Internal conflict


    • Multi-Draft papers need to have the following:
      • narratives or personal statements, nonfiction or fiction
      • Students address task, purpose, and audience to create tone and/or mood
      • Provide a Point of view
      • Structure of essay will be exposition/sequence/chronological order
      • With fiction: will include a metaphor and/or simile, and dialogue (inner thoughts and external), plot, setting, imagery, characters
      • have External and/or Internal conflict
      • MLA, syntax, grammar, spelling


  • On-Demand
    • On-Demand prompt needs to include:

      • Write narratives or personal statements, nonfiction or fiction
      • Students address task
      • Provide a Point of view
      • Structure of essay will be exposition/sequence/chronological order
      • In creating fictional narrative, ask students to include at least one or two of the following: metaphor and/or simile, and dialogue (inner thoughts and external), plot, setting, imagery, characters, external and/or internal conflict.

    • On-Demand papers need to have the following:

      • Write narratives or personal statements, nonfiction or fiction
      • Students will address task
      • Provide a Point of view
      • Structure of essay will be exposition/sequence/chronological order
      • In creating fictional narrative, ask students to include at least one or two of the following: metaphor and/or simile, and dialogue (inner thoughts and external), plot, setting, imagery, characters, external and/or internal conflict.
      • MLA, syntax, grammar, spelling


Interim Assessment